Messing with 0 ptr on m68020 & sys V / 68

[Andrew Klossner]

>> This "bug" has to be present for many of the utilities to run.

> No, it doesn't.  You can fix the utilities; that's what was done at Sun
> for all the cases noted.

You can fix the utilities, but you can't cause all your potential
customers to fix their code before they try it on your system.

>> Your OS vendor the has to allow you to read from address 0,

> Sun doesn't allow it, and neither do some other vendors.

To our delight.  We get orders from customers whose VAX-developed,
buggy code runs on our workstations but not on Suns.  Perhaps Motorola
is mining the same market opportunity.

  -=- Andrew Klossner   (uunet!tektronix!hammer!frip!andrew)    [UUCP]
                        (andrew%frip.gwd.tek.com at relay.cs.net)  [ARPA]